Design Concepts

Potential Design Concepts

1. Frogger- Using the cars passing underneath the bridge as "sprites" for the character to dodge in it's attempt to avoid traffic. The user would navigate with touch-screen capabilities, to avoid them becoming distracted and hurting themselves.
2. An Art Installment- online posting community (video/photo)
3. Virtual Butterflies - Sandbox game that allows you to dreate a butterfly that will live around the butterfly bushes planted on the bridge.
   
4. Musical Visualizer - Music played from the phone to be accompanied by visual you can play with within the space.
   
5. "Drawing" with the Pencil Building- A sketchpad of some nature, where the tip of the Bank of America building is the tip of a pencil, allowing the user to "draw" by moving their phone.
6. Scavenger Hunt- Search for virtual objects hidden within the area.
7. "Highway Hero"- A conceptual spin off of Guitar Hero, with the cars passing on I-75/85 underneath as cues.
8. Connect Four - A game to be played on the side of a building visible from the bridge.
   
9. Zombie Invasion - Looking through the phone would show you zombies implanted within the space that you have to ward off.
   
10. Virtual Arcade- This concept would incorporate multiple game ideas that we have.
11. Green Thumb- Grow your own plant, based on your own specifications. Similar to Spore.
12. Castle Defender- You represent a castle and you are to defend your position against oncoming people and cars.
13. Virtual Menagerie- There is a virtual zoo hidden on the 5th Street Bridge. You can adopt and raise a virtual animal of your choice. Come and take care of it, or else it will die.
    
14. Swine Flew- You have a virtual flying pig! It is sick with H1N1, and it is your job to infect as many passersby as possible.
15. Exodus- You're Moses! Yay! It is now your job to free your people from the dreaded Tech Campus! Part the street and try to have as many passersby escape in time!
    

Three Preferred Concepts

An Art Installment- online posting community (video/photo)

Scavenger Hunt- Search for virtual objects hidden within the area.

Virtual Arcade- This concept would incorporate multiple ideas that we have.

Group Meeting (November 11)

Today we met on the 5th Street Bridge. It was raining and we did not want to be there, but we stuck it out in the name of Augmented Reality Designers across the world.

Art/Design Project Inspirations

14th Street Building Art




Come Out and Play Festival
http://comeoutandplay.org
An event during which outdoor events are held that are intended to bring people out into the community to participate in public play. The events are purposed to encourage people to enjoy the spaces around them, and to develop a bond among community members over something fun and playful.



Undead Invasion
http://www.undeadinvasion.com/
Described as a "Halloween scavenger hunt," Undead Invasion is meant to serve a purpose similar to that of Come Out and Play. The event is a Zombie Invasion simulation. From the website:

This Halloween, cities around the world are at risk of being infested by hideous legions of the undead. You and your team of zombie hunters are the last defense standing between a world of puppies and fuzzy things and an apocalypse of unspeakable, brain-eating madness!

In addition to helping to repulse the zombie attack, you will also be competing against other teams of the living in a trial of speed, intelligence, and zombiestomping.

This type of event encourages people to become aware of their space and other people, and take an active role in something larger than themselves.



Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters

Street art provided a great deal of inspiration in that it makes use of existing spaces, generally, to create an entirely new experience. In particular, these trash bag art installments made use of subway train "updrafts" and were a "pop-up" surprise for passersby in the streets of New York. These installments were as good as hidden on the street, and when they inflated it was a wonderfully enjoyable surprise to everyone around.



ARF Augmented Reality Virtual Pet

Using labels just like the one we have seen demoed in class, this project provides the experience of interacting with a virtual pet in a real space.



Greengrowers: a location-based game in Venice

Using GPS with your phone, this game allows you to grow a virtual plant within a confined space. Since the 5th Street Bridge was designed to have a park-like atmosphere, this type of installation would fit very easily in with the idea behind the space.